[5] Al-Shu'aybi authored a book The Preferred View on the Ruling of Asking the Infidels for Help, that is said (by ) to have been "seminal in convincing a generation they should stand against—and hate—the encroachments of the West.
"[6][2] He supported the September 11 attacks and issued a Fatwa praising the Taliban government shortly after their destruction of the Buddha sculptures in Bamiyan[7] for creating "the only country in the world in which there are no man-made laws".
[9][10] Some students of al-Shuaybi are based out of the very conservative city of Buraydah, capital of al-Qasim Province in Saudi Arabia.
The most important of his students are Nasir al-Fahd, Ali al-Khudair, Hamoud al-Khaldi, and Sulaiman Al-Elwan.
[7] As of 2010, the four had been in prison since 2003, following the May 2003 suicide bombings of residential compounds in Riyadh that killed 34 people, and which they reportedly supported.